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brown to . blackish-brown, smooth or wrinkled when dry, fracture cartilaginous, hard, 
white within the cambium ring, brownish without, taste slightly bitter, followed by a 
very persistent strong tingling sensation, cambium continuous, forming a wide central 
strand, sinuous in cross-section; mother-tuber shrunk, deeply grooved and wrinkled, black 
outside, bro та right through, Innovation-bud conie, short from а very broad base, 
Stem erect, simple, inclusive of the inflorescence, 60—120 ет. high, rather stout, 
crispo-pubescent above, glabrous below, or almost glabrous all along. eares numerous, 
usually more distant in the lower part and crowded in the upper or more equally 
distributed, the lowest оп petioles up to 7:5 cm. long, the upper shortly petioled or 
subsessile, passing into the floral leaves, quite glabrous, somewhat fleshy, lower and 
intermediate blades orbicular, reniform іп outline, 4—6 cm. high, 5—9 cm. across, 3- 
palmati-partite almost to the very base, intermediate segment obovate-cuneate, long 
attenuated at the base, 3-lobed to the middle or beyond, lobes laciniate or the middie 
lobe pinnati-partite, ultimate laciniae linear, acute to very acute, lateral segments deep- 
ly 2-partite and laciniate with the inner division similar to the intermediate seg- 
ment and the outer 2-lobed and smaller; uppermost blades similar to the preceding, 
but smaller, relatively longer and more sparingly divided. Jnflorescence a long, narrow, 
stiff, dense or loose raceme, often over 30 cm. long, often leafy below and some- 
times with slender, erect additional branches from the base, crispo-pubescent; rhachis 
stout; floral leaves like the preceding leaves, but still less divided or entire, pass- 
ing into the linear to filiform bracts; bracteoles, if any, small; pedicels slender, 
the lowest at length 2:5—3:5 cm, long and adpressed to the rhachis when mature. 
Sepals blue or whitish and variegated with blue, crispo-pubescent or almost glabrous; 
uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet more or less depressed into a distinct and often 
long and slender beak, 15—20 mm. high, 12—18 mm. long from the tip to the base, 
5—7 mm, wide (seen from the side), lateral margin conspicuously concave ; lateral 
sepals not contiguous with the helmet except near the base, obliquely suborbicular or 
almost square, shortly or obscurely clawed, 12—15 шш. long and broad, lower sepals 
oblong, obtuse, 9—12 mm. long. Nectaries extinguisher-shaped, glabrous; claw 5—6 mm. 
long, leaning forward in the upper part; hood short, wide, very obtuse, top slightly 
gibbous on the back, honey-gland oceupying the whole top or the gibbosity. Fila- 
ments glabrous or very sparingly hairy, winged, wings gradually or abruptly atten- 
uated. Carpels 5, glabrous, rarely very sparingly hairy оп the back, conniving, 
abruptly contracted into the short style, back convex. Follicles oblong, truncate, 
10—16 mm. long, contiguous or with slightly divergent tips, glabrous, Seeds brown, 
obovoid to obpyramidal, 95 mm, long, unequally 3-winged, wings thin, faces 
smooth. 
DISTRIBUTION: Subalpine and Alpine zone of the Western Himalaya, 
Hazara to Kashmir, between 7,009 and 12,000 ft. es 
CurrraL: Mirga near Dir, 7,200 ft., Gatacre 17012! (Hb. Sah, and Cale.) —Gizerr : 
Shundur Pass ' and Shankar Gurch, 9,600 ft., Giles 637! (Hb. Kew); Kamri Valley, 
Байа 9,000 ft, Duthie 12510! (Hb. Sah.) and near Kalapani, 10,000—11,000 ft. 
Duthie 12520! (Hb. Sah. and Edinb,),—Kasmu ? Gurais, 8,000 ft., Falconers Coll 
Kew Distr. 70! (Hb. Kew); Clarke 29477! (Hb. Kew); Gulmarg, among shrubs, 
8,000 ft, Aitchison 7! (Hb. Kew); “Вана sums” and between я —— and 
Oriesertae,"  Fulconer's Coil.| (Hb. Sah.)—Hazama : Abbottabad, Munro 1901! (Hb. 
от Chitral and 
